MIDDLE EAST: Iranians rallied marking the 36th anniversary of taking over the US embassy by a group of Iranian students in Tehran.

TECHNOLOGY: French President Francois Hollande said sharing emissions-cutting technology with emerging nations like India and China will be a key part of the “success or failure” of climate change talks in Paris next month.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on neighboring Taiwan on Saturday, the first meeting of leaders from the two rivals since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949.

Senior Taiwanese government officials said the two leaders did not expect to sign any agreement, but plan to discuss ways to cement peace.

Taiwanese President Ma, who steps down next year, made improving ties with China one of his key policies, signing landmark investment and tourism deals.

Saturday’s confab may therefore signify a last push to woo voters with promises that strengthening ties to the world’s second-biggest economy will boost its own before January 2016 general elections..

Despite the improved ties in recent years, the Chinese government continues to adhere to its long-held policy that Taiwan is a breakaway province and that unification is inevitable — by force if necessary.

Spain: The Interior Ministry says police have arrested two people of Moroccan origin on suspicion of recruiting and spreading propaganda for the Islamic State. (AP)

Turkey: Officials say police have detained nine alleged Islamic State militants who were planning suicide bomb attacks on the offices of a political party in Istanbul. (AP)

MIDDLE EAST

Iran: Iranians rallied marking the 36th anniversary of taking over the US embassy by a group of Iranian students in Tehran. (Xinhua)

Israel: The country is to free a Palestinian detainee who survived a two-month hunger strike after holding him for a year without trial. (AFP)

Syria: Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes on an Islamic State-held town of Al-Qaryatain killed 23 civilians. (AFP)

Syria: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan held a phone conversation on the Syrian crisis in light of ministerial meetings in Vienna last week. (Reuters)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Technology: French President Francois Hollande said sharing emissions-cutting technology with emerging nations like India and China will be a key part of the “success or failure” of climate change talks in Paris next month. (AFP)